Video Game High School is an action comedy web series from Rocket Jump Studios.
It was written by Matthew Arnold, Will Campos and Brian Firenzi and directed by Matthew
Arnold, Brandon Laatsch and Freddie Wong.
The series stars Josh Blaylock as protagonist BrianD, Jimmy Wong as Ted Wong, Ellary Porterfield
as Ki Swan, Johanna Braddy as Jenny Matrix, and Brian Firenzi as The Law.
Rocket Jump Studios describes the series as "a show about best friends, first loves, and
landing that perfect head shot."
Premise The series is set in the near future where
video gaming elevates its best players to stardom by its position as the world's most
popular competitive sport.
Video Game High School is an elite and prestigious facility which teaches a curriculum of video
games of all genres.
The show's protagonist, BrianD, gains entry to the school after unknowingly defeating
"The Law", an international first-person shooter star, on live television.
The show follows BrianD and the friends and enemies he makes at the school, playing on
standard tropes of school dramas with a video game backdrop.
The show uses live-action scenes with the characters to show action within the games.
The games depicted are inventions of the show, the first-person shooter depicted is named
Field of Fire.
Cast Main
Josh Blaylock as Brian Doheny, an FPS player and the main protagonist of the series.
Johanna Braddy as Jennifer Mattheus, sophomore Junior Varsity team captain.
She is The Law's girlfriend in season 1, and Brian's love interest throughout the series.
Brian Firenzi as Lawrence Pemberton, the world's #1 amateur gamer.
He is Jenny Matrix's boyfriend in season 1 and the series' principal antagonist.
Ellary Porterfield as Ki Swan, going to school for game development.
She is Ted's love interest and one of Brian's friends.
Cynthia Watros as Mary Matrix, coach for the FPS Varsity team and Jenny's mother.
Jimmy Wong as Theodore Wong, Brian's best friend and the son of Rhythm Gaming teacher
Freddie Wong.
Ted wants to pursue rhythm gaming to make his father proud of him, though he is more
talented at racing games.
Supporting
Guests and cameos
Production and release Video Game High School is co-created by Freddie
Wong, Will Campos, Brian Firenzi and Matt Arnold.
In addition to acting as showrunner, Matt is also a writer, along with Will Campos and
Brian Firenzi.
The series is based on a concept by Will Campos and Chris Pappavaselio.
The team found funding for the series through Kickstarter, where they set a funding goal
for $75,000 to be raised in a 30 day period.
That amount was quickly pledged in less than 24 hours and continued to climb from there.
On October 22, 2011, pledging came to a close.
A total of $273,725 was raised for the project from 5,661 backers.
The team at Rocket Jump chose a webseries as the medium because they "strongly believe
the foundations for the future of digitally distributed content will be laid by webseries".
Production began in mid-October, with the project finishing in early 2012.
Principal photography for the film began on October 25, and ended in late November.
The final four days of shooting took place at the Eagle Mountain iron mine and Mojave
Desert.
Post-production started shortly after and ended in early 2012.
The trailer for the series premiered on YouTube on May 11 on freddiew's channel.
Later, the show was edited into a two-hour long movie and released on other mediums,
including DVD, Blu-ray, iTunes and Netflix.
Episodes
Season 1 episodes were released in May, June, and July 2012, first on the Rocket Jump website,
and a week later on YouTube channel "freddiew."
People who pledged to the project's fundraiser received HD digital downloads and DVDs.
The Kickstarter fundraiser for season 2 ended in February 2013 with the project more than
sufficiently funded.
The second season was released in July and August 2013.
In July 2013 Freddie Wong said that a third season was being worked on, and filming began
in March 2014.
References
External links www.rocketjump.com/vghs
Video Game High School at the Internet Movie Database